A lady i work with has a grandson that took a picture of on just like this yesterday 8/11/2010 in his back yard in Luling, La. (subburb of new orleans). I have never seen on like this. very cool looking.

I have nothing constructive to add but couldn't pass up the opportunity to add...
Monroe County, MI? Isn't that where the nuclear reactor is located (Fergie or something). Strange pink bugs=nuclear reactor, I think.
Seriously though, great capture! Have never seen this.

Hello,
I added a third photo of the Katydid that was untouched by Photoshop.
Sorry if it caused problems but I let Photoshop auto adjust without thinking. As you can see by the third photo of the Katydid is truly shocking pink. I owe this find to someone else that was looking at this and I saw the pink from 40 feet away and walked up to him to see what he was looking at.

I have seen photos of the color variation of the Katydids in intense orange-red and banana yellow but have not seen one this vibrantly, flamingo pink. They are obviously anomalous. And I can't imagine that the ones that attain this color last long in the bug-eat-bug world. It scares me to think how much digital power I would have burned on this easter Katydid.

Looks like Fujicolor of Photoshop. Hahahaha! Seriously, pink katydids are a known phenomenon, especially in Amblycorypha sp., of which this specimen is a female. Oh, sorry, common name is roundheaded katydid, which applies to entire genus. Specimens like this are very rarely seen and, assuming this is not an altered image, easily the most intense version I've ever seen.

I hate to say it, but thanks ebaums world. I didn't get pictures of it, but I friend of mine and I saw a gold (looked like 14k jewelery gold) very shiney, almost metalic. The body looked like a lady bug. I know the description is vague, but has anyone heard of this? It was found in Mid- Michigan.

you'd better place this kind of questions in the "general discussion" forum where more people will see it and answer it. What you saw is probably a tortoise
beetle. Take a look at the pictures, although no photo can do justice to their iridescence.

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